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Rrk 2 Why Is Yucca Brevifolia Called Joshua Tree Why is Yucca Brevifolia called Joshua Tree Richard Kohler, Washington County (Utah) Historical Society !1 August, 2020 Why is Yucca Brevifolia called Joshua Tree Richard Kohler, Washington County (Utah) Historical Society Why is Yucca Brevifolia called Joshua Tree? An official answer can be found on the Joshua Tree National Park website. “By the mid-19th century, Mormon immigrants had made their way across the Colorado River. Legend has it that these pioneers named the tree after the biblical figure, Joshua, seeing the limbs of the tree as outstretched in supplication, guiding the travelers westward.” Larry McAfee, National Park Service, 2016 Yucca Brevifolia But, there are a number of alternative answers. Chris Clarke, an environmental journalist and natural historian explored a few of these in his 2013 report for KCET, Southern California’s PBS affiliate. Which he began by quoting the Yucca Brevifolia Wikipedia page. "The name Joshua tree was given by a group of Mormon settlers who crossed the Mojave Desert in the mid-19th century. The tree's unique shape reminded them of a Biblical story in which Joshua reaches his hands up to the sky in prayer." Whether guiding or praying, the trees naming is still attributed to mid-19th century Mormons. But there is a rather significant objection to this claim made by the well respected cultural historian, Richard V. Francaviglia, in his 2003 book, Believing in Place: A Spiritual Geography of the Great Basin. “The name Joshua tree did not enter the region’s vocabulary until the twentieth century.” In today’s world, it is possible to investigate Francaviglia’s assertion by searching digital copies of western U. S. newspapers published between 1850 and 1920. Perusing the individual news articles, a noticeable change in the choice of words used when referring to Yucca Brevifloia occurs after 1905, before then it is called Yucca Tree, Yucca Palm or simply Yucca. !2 August, 2020 Why is Yucca Brevifolia called Joshua Tree Richard Kohler, Washington County (Utah) Historical Society The famous Great Basin explorer John C. Fremont was the first to make scientific observations about the Yucca Brevifolia in the Expeditions of John C. Fremont 1844, published by the U. S. War Department. Fremont simply referred to the plant as “yucca” noting that it occurred in “forests” in California. (Note the entirety of the southwestern U. S. including Utah and Nevada was at the time in the Mexican province of Alta California.) !3 August, 2020 Why is Yucca Brevifolia called Joshua Tree Richard Kohler, Washington County (Utah) Historical Society Lieutenant R. S. Williamson of the Corps of Topographical Engineers was, in 1853, surveying a practical railway route from the Mississippi to the Pacific and passed through present day Antelope Valley, California. The colored lithograph below was prepared from sketches by Charles Koppel, the expedition’s assistant civil engineer and artist. Williamson noted the remarkable yucca vegetation in the valley. He also reported that the leaves of the Yucca were about as strong and as sharp as a bayonet and that the plant was commonly called the “bayonet tree”. !4 August, 2020 Why is Yucca Brevifolia called Joshua Tree Richard Kohler, Washington County (Utah) Historical Society An early reference to the uses of Yucca fibers can be found the the end of an article listing the vegetable resources of Southern Utah, written by Joseph E. Johnson, publisher of the Utah Pomologist. Utah Pomologist, February, 1874 St. George, Utah Johnson, a Mormon, was quite scientific in his writing about crops and produce. He received patents for new species of peach and other orchard trees. Nonetheless, the writing here uses the common name “Tampico” for yucca fiber. Why wouldn’t Johnson, a Mormon, have used the term Joshua, if it was common among his friends, neighbors and brothers? Yucca Brevifolia received its proper scientific name with the publication of Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian: Expedition of 1872 Lieutenant George M. Wheeler, Commanding, 1875. During the expedition, Dr. George Engelmann, classified a number of distinct Yucca plants including Yucca Brevifolia, Yucca Angustifolia, Yucca Baccata, Yucca Whipplei and Agave Utahense, Engelmanni that hadn’t been observed in Texas or the East. Joseph Ellis Johnson, a newspaper publisher, and Dr. Edward Palmer, an archeologist, were credited by Engelmann with the discovery/classification of Agave Utahense. Note that Engelmann made his observations and classifications during the expedition of 1872, but that the scientific name’s publication was in 1875. !5 August, 2020 Why is Yucca Brevifolia called Joshua Tree Richard Kohler, Washington County (Utah) Historical Society Joseph Ellis Johnson and Dr. Edward Palmer encouraged Charles Christopher Parry another prominent botanist to come in Southern Utah in 1874 and 1875. While in Washington County, Utah, Parry was corresponding with Dr. George Engelmann of St. Louis, Missouri concerning numerous indigenous plants including Yucca Brevifolia. One sentence, in one letter from Charles Christopher Parry to Dr. George Engelmann dated 14 April 1874 is particularly relevant to our enquiry. It was reprinted from the original in the March 1988 issue of the Great Basin Naturalist by Stanley L. Welsh of Brigham Young University, in an article titled Utah Botanical Explorer Charles Christopher Parry. 14 April 1874, excerpt from letter addressed to Dr. George Engelmann from Charles Christopher Parry < -- The Mormons So, yes, the Mormons did call Yucca Brevifolia, “Joshua” in 1874. It should be noted that Parry was residing in St. George, Utah at the time he made this statement. !6 August, 2020 Why is Yucca Brevifolia called Joshua Tree Richard Kohler, Washington County (Utah) Historical Society July, 1881, Chicago Tribune Yucca tree, Yucca palm and Yucca were the names by which Yucca Brevifolia was called by until after the turn of the century. Travel by rail increased the public’s exposure to this unusual plant during the later part of the 19th century. Dagger-shaped leaves. Nothing more grotesque. Pulp used to make banknote paper. !7 August, 2020 Why is Yucca Brevifolia called Joshua Tree Richard Kohler, Washington County (Utah) Historical Society November, 1896, San Francisco Chronicle Yucca tree or Spanish bayonet Classified in the lily family of plants. Sharp pointed leaves, Seen near the railroad. !8 August, 2020 Why is Yucca Brevifolia called Joshua Tree Richard Kohler, Washington County (Utah) Historical Society 1902, The Romance of the Colorado River, Frederick S. Dellenbaugh Dellenbaugh was a member of John Wesley Powell’s 1871 Colorado River Expedition. His 1902 book included photographs, sketches and artwork made on that expedition. Charles Roscoe Savage was a prominent Mormon photographer based in Salt Lake City. Note the variation from the scientific name Yucca Brevifolia from a reclassification made in the 1890s by Dr. Torrey of Kew Gardens, England. In 1902, Dellenbaugh wrote, “And the yuccas are quite as beautiful, with their tall central rods so richly crowned with bell-like blossoms, the fantastic Clistoyucca arborescent, or Joshua Tree, being more in harmony with the archaic landscape than any other plant there.” Dellenbaugh and the other members of the John Wesley Powell Expedition had learned the term “Joshua Tree” from their contact with Mormon colonists. You can read the 1903 edition of The Romance of the Colorado River at https://library.si.edu/ digital-library/book/romanceofcolor00dell. The book was well received by the public in the first decade of the twentieth century. The third and largest edition was printed in 1909. !9 August, 2020 Why is Yucca Brevifolia called Joshua Tree Richard Kohler, Washington County (Utah) Historical Society Mule train hauling cargo outside Goldfield, Nevada ca. 1905 The use of the word “Joshua tree” in newspapers begins around 1905. Many instances occur in the newspapers of Goldfield, Tonopah, Rhyolite and other Nevada mining towns, or in stories about those places published in the Deseret News, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Los Angeles Times and other national newspapers. Note that there is only one Joshua tree visible in the above photograph taken on the outskirts of Goldfield in 1905 (dark spot on hill). Joshua trees were burned to fire mining smelters. January, 1908, Deseret News A joke or a josh. Good for fuel. !10 August, 2020 Why is Yucca Brevifolia called Joshua Tree Richard Kohler, Washington County (Utah) Historical Society December, 1905, Goldfield News From car windows. The Joshua lends relief. June, 1907, Tonopah Daily Bonanza We can only offer Joshua trees as tokens of hospitality, and fellowship. September, 1907, Tonopah Daily Bonanza Stay with us in the shade of the Joshua trees. !11 August, 2020 Why is Yucca Brevifolia called Joshua Tree Richard Kohler, Washington County (Utah) Historical Society September, 1936, Evening Star (Washington, DC) Save odd plant from extinction. Set aside by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Joshua Tree National Monument. Mormons gave giant yucca its Joshua name. Pointing them to Promised Land. !12 August, 2020 Why is Yucca Brevifolia called Joshua Tree Richard Kohler, Washington County (Utah) Historical Society 1929, Garden Club of America, Flower Show Traveling Exhibition, Minerva Hamilton Hoyt In the late 1920s widowed Pasadena socialite Minerva Hamilton Hoyt began a crusade to preserve the desert where Joshua Trees grew. Her exhibit, filled seven freight cars with native plants, desert rocks, and sand, shipped to New York, then Boston and finally London. 1934, Stephen Willard Photograph Album, Minerva Hamilton Hoyt Hoyt’s crusade was capped with a picture book that she had delivered to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt by United State Chamber of Commerce president Henry Harriman in 1934. !13 August, 2020 Why is Yucca Brevifolia called Joshua Tree Richard Kohler, Washington County (Utah) Historical Society 1937, Borderland, Screen Guild Productions The new Joshua Tree National Monument became a more fashionable location, attracting Hollywood film companies, including box office star Hopalong Cassidy (William Boyd), to the area in 1937 for two productions, Borderland and In Old Mexico.
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